There's actually a group of duly elected people there who can happily rein in that person. They are for the most part instead not doing anything.

A huge problem for current US politics is that increasingly the smaller states have been controlled by the Republican party for a long time and the Senate is 2 people per state. (HORRIBLE design but made more sense with 13 Independent Colonies.)

A reckoning is going to happen at some point, but I don't think the world or the US is ready for that just yet.

(At least this is the POV of an American who hasn't lived there since 2000 and hasn't been a citizen since 2009.)

HP Inc doesn't make any money though, instead they are just slowly losing more money.

Ultimately Teradici sold itself to it's largest partner who still couldn't make enough money to keep it running.

This is the PC and Printer business, the entire rest of the software directly related to PC and Printers was already divested into HPE (or was already spun into Agilent), even HPE kicked out a bunch of software over to Micro Focus and OpenText (who promptly bought Micro Focus.)

I'm sure they have tried to sell it and nobody was buying. They are also struggling to make money despite being the #2 PC vendor (globally.)

Unless you are an extremely profitable company that has reason to raise margin, there's NO reason for a company to shutdown something that's making money. That means ... it's not making money.

I think maybe you either only work in a certain POV of the world of software development or just totally have no clue.

C++ has not at all died and has been increasing in enterprise business usage, mostly at the loss of Java and C# code. Also it's been growing in popularity in embedded usage.

It definitely seems like it was up and coming to replace all systems programming work and then just ... stalled out.

Rust Community has unfortunately made many, many people HATE them with a passion.

Who knows what the future will hold, but definitely seems like it might have stalled out.

It's also really hard to teach people who aren't as good at programming to use Rust well.

There's different types of CEO ummm coloring of reality. Altman's problem is lying to other CEOs ... That's a no-no.

Probably just the OpenAI bubble is going to pop. Same with the Tesla bubble popping. Anthropic doesn't seem likely to pop, but could as they are too big to buy now. Google isn't going to pop, Microsoft isn't going to pop - in both cases they have strong profits. Amazon AWS has strong profits, the Chinese companies have strong profits and all the Gen AI services companies would just fire the divisions and move on.

The market as a whole is not in a bubble and that's pretty obviously if you look at actual market bubble stats.

This is just a CMS frontend that runs on TOP of Astro which necessitates writing it in TypeScript.

Now I CAN write it all in Rust, compile Rust to WASM and then run WASM in TypeScript on top of Astro (or running my own Astro server, I can run the WASM direct.)

It's just one of those days isn't it?

I'm having Claude rewrite it into Rust right now.

Imagine if people understood that you vote people into positions to make these decisions. (Currently people keep voting for people against their own best interests.)

It wasn't illegal, it was a tort.

Hilarious to pull quotes from Atlas Shrugged given the current state of the world being taken over by Atlas Shrugged influenced shitheads.

Dunning Kruger Effect but from someone with a 6 digit ID ...

Everything about about this is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCU36pkH7c

AI is 100% a usable valid tool, but I still have to basically check everything.

*Looks over nervously at 2 max configuration Mac Studios*

The market for expansion cards has definitely slipped.

(And this doesn't compare to running the full model on the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 machine, but it is what it is.)